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[Footnote 236: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 363.]

[Footnote 237: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 501. For a further comparison of
Scott and Jeffrey as critics see below, pp. 134-5.]

[Footnote 238: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 204.]

[Footnote 239: _Ibid._, Vol. V, p. 97.]

[Footnote 240: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 262]

[Footnote 241: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 173]

[Footnote 242: In general Scott admired Lockhart. "I have known the
most able men of my time," he once wrote, "and I never met any one who
had such ready command of his own mind, and possessed in a greater
degree the power of making his talents available upon the shortest
notice, and upon any subject." (_Life of Murray_, Vol. II, p. 222.)
But in Lockhart's earlier days Scott said, "I am sometimes angry with
him for an exuberant love of fun in his light writings, which he has
caught, I think, from Wilson, a man of greater genius than himself
perhaps, but who disputes with low adversaries, which I think a
terrible error, and indulges in a sort of humour which exceeds the
bounds of playing at ladies and gentlemen, a game to which I have been
partial all my life." (_Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart_, p. 225.)]

[Footnote 243: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 400.]

[Footnote 244: Lang's _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 406.]

[Footnote 245: _Life of Murray_, Vol. I, pp. 146-7.]

[Footnote 246: _Quarterly_, February, 1809.]

[Footnote 247: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 327.]

[Footnote 248: Scott wrote a poetical epitaph for the burial place of
Miss Seward and her father. See _Edinburgh Annual Register_, Vol. II,
pt. 2. In the introduction to _The Tapestried Chamber_, Scott said,
"It was told to me many years ago by the late Miss Anna Seward, who,
among other accomplishments that rendered her an amusing inmate in a
country house, had that of recounting narratives of this sort with
very considerable effect; much greater, indeed, than anyone would be
apt to guess from the style of her written performances." It must be
remembered that Miss Seward was one of the first persons of any
literary note, outside of Edinburgh, to show an interest in Scott's
work, and he committed himself to admiration of her poetry when he was
still in a rather uncritical stage. In regard to his later feeling
about her see _Recollections_, by R.P. Gillies, _Fraser's_, xiii: 692,
January, 1836.]

[Footnote 249: J.L. Adolphus, in an interesting passage in his
_Letters to Heber on the Authorship of Waverley_, noted many of the
references to contemporary poets. See pp. 53-4. See also Hazlitt's
_Spirit of the Age_, art. _Sir Walter Scott_]

[Footnote 250: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 341. See also a similar
anecdote in Forster's _Life of Landor_, Vol. II, p. 244.]

[Footnote 251: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, pp. 116-17.]

[Footnote 252: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 132.]

[Footnote 253: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 321.]

[Footnote 254: Review of _Cromek's Reliques of Burns_, _Quarterly_,
February, 1809.]

[Footnote 255: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 256: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 257: Crabbe Robinson, in his diary (quoted by Knight in his
edition of Wordsworth, Vol. X, p. 189), says that Coleridge and his
friends "consider Scott as having stolen the verse" of _Christabel_.
On this point see also a letter by Coleridge, given in Meteyard's
_Group of Englishmen_, pp. 327-8. In 1807 Coleridge wrote to Southey:
"I did not over-hugely admire the 'Lay of the Last Minstrel,' but saw
no likeness whatever to the 'Christabel,' much less any improper
resemblance." (_Letters of Coleridge_, ed. by E.H. Coleridge, Vol. II,
p. 523.) Yet Mr. Lang seems to think that in this matter Scott "showed
something of the deficient sense of _meum_ and _tuum_ which marked his
freebooting ancestors." (_Sir Walter Scott_, p. 36.) Apparently Scott
never dreamed that the matter could be looked at in this way. In
Lockhart's _Scott_ (Vol. II, pp. 77-8) we find described an occasion
on which the two men once met in London, when they were asked, with
other poets who were present, to recite from their unpublished
writings. Coleridge complied with the request, but Scott said he had
nothing of his own and would repeat some stanzas he had seen in a
newspaper. The poem was criticised adversely in spite of Scott's
protests, till Coleridge lost patience and exclaimed, "Let Mr. Scott
alone; I wrote the poem." Coleridge's lines:

"The Knight's bones are dust
And his good sword rust,
His soul is with the saints, I trust,"

are probably much better known as they appear in _Ivanhoe_,
incorrectly quoted, than in their proper form. Scott also added a note
on Coleridge in this connection. (_Ivanhoe_, Chapter VIII.)]

[Footnote 258: But apparently not in any earlier than _The Black
Dwarf_, which was written in 1816, the year in which the poem was
published. It was about 1803 that Scott heard _Christabel_ recited.
See _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 221.]

[Footnote 259: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 356.]

[Footnote 260: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 315.]

[Footnote 261: See _Letters to Heber_, p. 293; _On Imitations of the
Ancient Ballad_; _Lockhart_, Vol. III, pp. 56 and 264; _Quentin
Durward_, Vol. II, p. 394.]

[Footnote 262: Note in _The Abbot_.]

[Footnote 263: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 223.]

[Footnote 264: Note in _St. Ronan's Well_. See also the comment on
_Wallenstein_ in _Paul's Letters_, Letter XV.]

[Footnote 265: Review of _Childe Harold_, _Canto III_, _Quarterly_,
October, 1816.]

[Footnote 266: In 1818 Scott wrote a review of _Frankenstein_ in which
it appears that he thought Shelley was the author. Shelley had sent
the book with a note in which he said that it was the work of a friend
and he had merely seen it through the press; and Scott took this for
the conventional evasion so often resorted to by authors. (See Mr.
Lang's note in his Introduction to the Waverley Novels, p. lxxxvi.)
Scott praises the substance and style of the book, and advises the
author to cultivate his poetical powers, in words which make it
evident that he did not know Shelley as a poet, though _Alastor_ had
appeared in 1816. Scott also praises _Frankenstein_ in his article on
Hoffmann. In reading Scott's novels I have noted two reminiscences of
the line, "One word is too often profaned." They are to be found in
_Old Mortality_, Vol. II, p. 93, and in _Redgauntlet_, Vol. I, p.
224.]

[Footnote 267: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 179.]

[Footnote 268: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 40.]

[Footnote 269: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 97.]

[Footnote 270: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 333]

[Footnote 271: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 190.]

[Footnote 272: I quote from the letter as given in Knight's
_Wordsworth_, Vol. II, p. 105. Prof. Knight says that Lockhart quotes
the letter less exactly (Vol. I, p. 489.)]

[Footnote 273: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 428.]

[Footnote 274: Even Byron admired Southey. He once wrote, "His prose
is perfect. Of his poetry there are various opinions: there is,
perhaps, too much of it for the present generation; posterity will
probably select. He has _passages_ equal to anything." (Byron's
_Letters and Journals_, ed. Prothero, Vol. II, p. 331.) Shelley also
had a high opinion of Southey's work. (Dowden's _Life of Shelley_,
Vol. I, p. 158, and pp. 471-2.) Landor liked _Madoc_ and _Thalaba_ so
much that, when he found Southey hesitating to write more poems of a
similar kind because they did not pay, he offered to bear the expense
of the publication. Southey refused the assistance, but was stimulated
by the kindness and considered Landor's encouragement responsible for
his later work in poetry. (Forster's _Life of Landor_, Vol. I, pp.
209-214.)]

[Footnote 275: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 307.]

[Footnote 276: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 415.]

[Footnote 277: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 477; see also _Edinburgh Annual
Register_ for 1809, part 2, p. 588.]

[Footnote 278: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 197.]

[Footnote 279: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 127.]

[Footnote 280: In his youth Scott read Dante with other Italian
authors, but he did not become well acquainted with him, and later
even expressed dislike for his work. (See _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 408.)
In 1825 he wrote to W.S. Rose, "I will subscribe for Dante with all
pleasure, on condition you do not insist on my reading him." (_Fam.
Let._, Vol. II, p. 356.)]

[Footnote 281: It may be interesting to have Southey's comment on the
same article. (See _Southey's Letters_, Vol. II, p. 307.) He says,
"Bedford has seen the review which Scott has written of it, and which,
from his account, though a very friendly one, is, like that of the
'Cid,' very superficial. He sees nothing but the naked story; the
moral feeling which pervades it has escaped him. I do not know whether
Bedford will be able to get a paragraph interpolated touching upon
this, and showing that there is some difference between a work of high
imagination and a story of mere amusement." Either Bedford was
mistaken in saying that Scott had ignored the moral aspect of the
poem, or else he succeeded in getting a passage interpolated, for the
review is sufficiently definite on that point.]

[Footnote 282: _Lockhart_, Vol. I, p. 481.]

[Footnote 283: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 296.]

[Footnote 284: _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 413.]

[Footnote 285: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 112; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p.
429.]

[Footnote 286: _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 391.]

[Footnote 287: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 211.]

[Footnote 288: Introduction to _Marmion_; _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 82.]

[Footnote 289: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 508.]

[Footnote 290: Byron did not altogether approve of Scott's poetry, but
he felt its effectiveness. In his "Reply to Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine," Byron wrote: "What have we got instead [of following Pope]?
A deluge of flimsy and unintelligible romances, imitated from Scott
and myself, who have both made the best of our bad materials and
erroneous system."]

[Footnote 291: Review of _Childe Harold_, _Canto III_, _Quarterly_,
October, 1816.]

[Footnote 292: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 182.]

[Footnote 293: It should be remembered also that Scott's first review
of _Childe Harold_ appeared at a time when all England was condemning
Byron for his treatment of Lady Byron, and that the article was
thought by many to be altogether too lenient. Byron wrote to Murray
expressing his pleasure in the review before he knew who was
responsible for it, and some years later he wrote to Scott as follows:
"To have been recorded by you in such a manner would have been a proud
memorial at any time, but at such a time ... was something still
higher to my self-esteem.... Had it been a common criticism, however
eloquent or panegyrical, I should have felt pleased, undoubtedly, and
grateful, but not to the extent which the extraordinary
good-heartedness of the whole proceeding must induce in any mind
capable of such sensations." (_Byron's Letters and Journals_, Vol. VI,
p. 2.) See _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 510, for quotations from Byron
showing his admiration for Scott. An interesting contrast between the
characters of the two poets is drawn by H.S. Legare. (See his
_Collected Writings_, Vol. II, p. 258.)]

[Footnote 294: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 221]

[Footnote 295: _Remarks on the Death of Lord Byron_.]

[Footnote 296: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 525]

[Footnote 297: See Nichol's _Byron_ (English Men of Letters), p. 205;
and Arnold's essay on Byron.]

[Footnote 298: _Quarterly Review_, May, 1809.]

[Footnote 299: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 341.]

[Footnote 300: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 9.]

[Footnote 301: _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 70.]

[Footnote 302: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 306.]

[Footnote 303: Byron said, "Crabbe's the man, but he has got a coarse
and impracticable subject." (Moore's _Life and Letters of Byron_, Vol.
IV, pp. 63-4.) Leslie Stephen remarks that Crabbe "was admired by
Byron in his rather wayward mood of Pope-worship, as the last
representative of the legitimate school." (_English Literature and
Society in the 18th Century_, p. 207.)]

[Footnote 304: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 197.]

[Footnote 305: The reader will at once recall the ingenuous remark of
Sophia Scott when she was asked, shortly after its appearance, how she
liked _The Lady of the Lake_. She said, "Oh, I have not read it; Papa
says there's nothing so bad for young people as reading bad poetry."
(_Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 130. See also the _Life of Irving_, Vol. I,
p. 444.)]

[Footnote 306: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. II, p. 94.]

[Footnote 307: _Correspondence of C.K. Sharpe_, Vol. I, p. 353.]

[Footnote 308: See _Marmion_, introduction to Canto III, and other
passages noted by Adolphus in the _Letters to Heber_, p. 295. See also
_Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 198, and the passage in _Lockhart_
(Vol. II, p. 132), in which James Ballantyne reports Scott as saying
to him, "If you wish to speak of a real poet, Joanna Baillie is now
the highest genius of our country."]

[Footnote 309: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 306.]

[Footnote 310: _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 359; also Vol. I, p. 255; and
_Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, p. 300.]

[Footnote 311: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 117.]

[Footnote 312: _Ibid._, Vol. V, p. 448.]

[Footnote 313: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 14.]

[Footnote 314: _Forster_, Vol. I, p. 84, note.]

[Footnote 315: _Ibid._, Vol. I, p. 95.]

[Footnote 316: _Haydon's Correspondence_, Vol. I, p. 356.]

[Footnote 317: Hunt says Scott was interested in reading _The Story of
Rimini_. See Hunt's _Autobiography_, Vol. I, p. 260.]

[Footnote 318: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 22. Scott wrote as follows to
Lockhart after the appearance of _Lord Byron and Some of his
Contemporaries_: "Hunt has behaved like a hyena to Byron, whom he has
dug up to girn and howl over him in the same breath." Mr. Lang makes
this comment: "Leigh Hunt ... had gone out of his way to insult Sir
Walter and to make the most baseless insinuations against him. Scott
probably never mentioned Leigh Hunt's name publicly in his life, and
he refers to the insults neither in his correspondence nor in his
_Journal_." (Lang's _Life of Lockhart_, Vol. II, pp. 22 and 24.) Hunt
evidently thought that Scott was partly responsible for the articles
in _Blackwood_ on the Cockney School. He says, "Unfortunately some of
the knaves were not destitute of talent: the younger were tools of
older ones who kept out of sight." (Hunt's _Lord Byron_, etc., Vol. I,
p. 423.) In his _Autobiography_, Hunt says, "Sir Walter Scott
confessed to Mr. Severn at Rome that the truth respecting Keats had
prevailed." (Vol. II, p. 44.) Mr. Lang points out that though Colvin
said of Scott (in his _Life of Keats_) "that he was in some measure
privy to the Cockney School outrages seems certain," he afterwards
recanted the statement. (In his edition of _Keats's Letters_, p. 60,
note. See Lang's _Lockhart_, Vol. I, pp. 196-8.) Scott invited Lamb to
Abbotsford when Lamb was looked upon as a leader of the Cockney
School. (Lang's _Scott_, p. 52.)]

[Footnote 319: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 155; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 476,
and Vol. V, p. 380.]

[Footnote 320: _Quarterly_, October, 1815.]

[Footnote 321: Postscript to _Waverley_, and General Introduction.]

[Footnote 322: For references to the group of women novelists who were
so successful in depicting manners, see the _Life of Charlotte Smith_;
the Postscript to _Waverley_; the Introduction to _St. Ronan's Well_;
_Journal_, Vol. I, p. 164.]

[Footnote 323: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. III.]

[Footnote 324: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 116.]

[Footnote 325: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, 164.]

[Footnote 326: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 299; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 65.]

[Footnote 327: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 295; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 62.]

[Footnote 328: The reference as given by Lockhart is as follows: "This
man, who has shown so much genius, has a good deal of the manners, or
want of manners, peculiar to his countrymen." (_Lockhart_, Vol. V, p.
62.) Cooper observes in regard to this point: "The manners of most
Europeans strike us as exaggerated, while we appear cold to them. Sir
Walter Scott was certainly so obliging as to say many flattering
things to me, which I, as certainly, did not repay in kind. As Johnson
said of his interview with George the Third, it was not for me to
bandy compliments with my sovereign. At that time the diary was a
sealed book to the world, and I did not know the importance he
attached to such civilities." It is a pity that the transcriber of the
passage in the _Journal_ changed "manner," which was the word Scott
wrote, to the more objectionable "manners." (_Journal_, Vol. I, p.
295.)]

[Footnote 329: Scott's letter was substantially as follows: "I have
considered in all its bearings the matter which your kindness has
suggested. Upon many former occasions I have been urged by my friends
in America to turn to some advantage the sale of my writings in your
country, and render that of pecuniary avail as an individual which I
feel as the highest compliment as an author. I declined all these
proposals, because the sale of this country produced me as much profit
as I desired, and more--far more--than I deserved. But my late heavy
losses have made my situation somewhat different, and have rendered it
a point of necessity and even duty to neglect no means of making the
sale of my works effectual to the extrication of my affairs, which can
be honorably and honestly resorted to. If therefore Mr. Carey, or any
other publishing gentleman of credit and character, should think it
worth while to accept such an offer, I am willing to convey to him the
exclusive right of publishing the _Life of Napoleon_, and my future
works in America, making it always a condition, which indeed will be
dictated by the publisher's own interest, that this monopoly shall not
be used for the purpose of raising the price of the work to my
American readers, but only for that of supplying the public at the
usual terms....

"At any rate, if what I propose should not be found of force to
prevent piracy, I cannot but think from the generosity and justice of
American feeling, that a considerable preference would be given in the
market to the editions emanating directly from the publisher selected
by the author, and in the sale of which the author had some interest.

"If the scheme shall altogether fail, it at least infers no loss, and
therefore is, I think, worth the experiment. It is a fair and open
appeal to the liberality, perhaps in some sort to the justice, of a
great people; and I think I ought not in the circumstances to decline
venturing upon it. I have done so manfully and openly, though not
perhaps without some painful feelings, which however are more than
compensated by the interest you have taken in this unimportant matter,
of which I will not soon lose the recollection." (_Knickerbocker
Magazine_, Vol. XI, p. 380 ff., April, 1838.)]

[Footnote 330: _Knickerbocker_, Vol. XII, p. 349 ff., October, 1838.]

[Footnote 331: In a letter written in January, 1839, Sumner said,
speaking of Cooper's article, "I think a proper castigation is applied
to the vulgar minds of Scott and Lockhart." (See _Memoir and Letters
of Charles Sumner_, by Edward L. Pierce, Vol. II, p. 38; and
Lounsbury's _Cooper_, p. 160.)]

[Footnote 332: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, pp. 163-4.]

[Footnote 333: _Ibid._, Vol. III, p. 262.]

[Footnote 334: _Ibid._, Vol. III, p. 131, note; _Fam. Let._, Vol. I,
p. 440. "Walter Scott was the first transatlantic author to bear
witness to the merit of Knickerbocker," wrote P.M. Irving in his _Life
of Washington Irving_. Henry Brevoort presented Scott with a copy of
the second edition in 1813, and received this reply: "I beg you to
accept my best thanks for the uncommon degree of entertainment which I
have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I
am sensible that as a stranger to American parties and politics I must
lose much of the concealed satire of the piece, but I must own that
looking at the simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read
anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift, as the annals
of Diedrich Knickerbocker.... I think too there are passages which
indicate that the author possesses powers of a different kind, and has
some touches which remind me much of Sterne." (_Life of Irving_, Vol.
I, p. 240.) When, in 1819, Irving needed money, he wrote to Scott for
advice about publishing the _Sketch Book_ in England. "Scott was the
only literary man," he says, "to whom I felt that I could talk about
myself and my petty concerns with the confidence and freedom that I
would to an old friend--nor was I deceived. From the first moment that
I mentioned my work to him in a letter, he took a decided and
effective interest in it, and has been to me an invaluable friend."
(Vol. I, p. 456.) At this time Scott asked Irving to accept the
editorship of a political newspaper in Edinburgh, an offer which
Irving of course refused. (_Fam. Let._, Vol. II, p. 60; _Life of
Irving_, Vol. I, pp. 441-2, and Vol. III, pp. 272-3.) Scott called the
_Sketch Book_ "positively beautiful." He was by some people supposed
to be the author. In this connection it was said of him that his "very
numerous disguises," and his "well-known fondness for literary
masquerading, seem to have gained him the advantage of being suspected
as the author of every distinguished work that is published." (Letter
by Lady Lyttleton, in _Life of Irving_, Vol. II, p. 21.)]

[Footnote 335: _Lockhart_, Vol. III, p. 131; _Life of Irving_, Vol. I,
p. 240.]

[Footnote 336: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 161.]

[Footnote 337: _Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft_, Letter II.]

[Footnote 338: _Constable's Correspondence_, Vol. III, p. 199.]

[Footnote 339: _Lockhart_, Vol. V, pp. 100-104.]

[Footnote 340: Vol. I, p. 371.]

[Footnote 341: _Journal_, Vol. I, p. 359; _Lockhart_, Vol. V, p. 100.
See also _Journal_, Vol. II, pp. 483-4.]

[Footnote 342: Review of Hoffmann's novels, _Foreign Quarterly
Review_, July, 1827.]

[Footnote 343: _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, p. 19.]

[Footnote 344: M. Maigron says, speaking of the vogue of Scott in
France: "On peut affirmer meme que, de 1820 a 1830, aucun nom francais
ne fut en France aussi connu et aussi glorieux." (_Le Roman Historique
a l'Epoque Romantique_, p. 99. See also pp. 100-133.)]

[Footnote 345: The phrase is quoted from Scott's article on the _Life
and Works of John Home_, in which it is applied to Home's critical
work. The same idea occurs frequently in Scott's books, as indicating
one of the finest graces of life. It was one which Sir Walter was
foremost in practicing in all his social relations.]

[Footnote 346: He was talking about Pope. See the _Recollections_, by
R.P. Gillies, _Fraser's_, xii: 253 (Sept., 1835).]

[Footnote 347: Review of _The Battles of Talavera_, _Quarterly_,
November, 1809.]

[Footnote 348: Editor's Introduction to _Montrose_, Border edition of
the Waverley Novels.]

[Footnote 349: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 125.]

[Footnote 350: _Quarterly_, January, 1817. Scott evidently wrote this
article chiefly for the purpose of defending the historical accuracy
of _Old Mortality_. He also wished to show that _The Black Dwarf_ was
founded on fact; and he devoted some space, as will appear in the
passage quoted below (pp. 111-112), to a discussion of the artistic
aspects of these and the earlier Waverly novels.]

[Footnote 351: _Journal_, Vol. II, p. 269.]

[Footnote 352: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 276.]

[Footnote 353: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 96.]

[Footnote 354: Introductory epistle to _Nigel_; _Fam. Let._, Vol. I,
p. 28.]

[Footnote 355: Introduction to the _Monastery_.]

[Footnote 356: _Familiar Letters_, Vol. I, p. 258.]

[Footnote 357: _Rokeby_, Canto VI, stanza 26; _Waverley_, Vol. II, pp.
399-400; _Journal_, Vol. 1, p. 117; _Lockhart_, Vol. IV, pp. 447-8.]

[Footnote 358: Review of the _Life and Works of John Home_,
_Quarterly_, June, 1827.]

[Footnote 359: Review of Southery's _Life of Bunyan_, _Quarterly_,
October, 1830.]

[Footnote 360: _Quarterly_, January, 1817.]

[Footnote 361: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, pp. 7-8.]

[Footnote 362: _Quarterly_, November, 1809.]

[Footnote 363: _Lockhart_, Vol. II, p. 128.]

[Footnote 364: _Ibid._, Vol. II, p. 129.]

[Footnote 365: Epistle prefixed to Canto V.]

[Footnote 366: Epistle prefixed to Canto III.]

[Footnote 367: Hazlitt's _Spirit of the Age_, art. _Sir Walter Scott_;
see _Letters to Heber_, p. 75 ff.]

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